Module development and code questions

Goal: to upload an image with a story, with auto thumnail and img tag creation

So far only uploading to image gallery produces a thumbnail, but this is not easy for novice user to include in a blog or story post.

I've read all the posts and tried all the image uploading techniques- so far preferred methods are img url filter module (convert http://www...pic.jpg to img src) and the article module with add image.

img url filter:
method: attach image, then copy and paste link
advantage: place img where you want
problem: no thumbnail option

article module:
method: upload image.
advantage: automatically placed at end of article, easy for novice
problem: (article module or flexinode?) output that has stories formatted like this:

Body: <- ugly
Washington- Once again the President has proven blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Upload Image: <- ugly
[image]

(The story module doesn't print those field titles, but the default add story does not have 'upload image', like the article module does... i can live with for now, but i Really don't like it)
Does anyone know how to remove those (self-defined) field titles from the article post?

But still this is limited- no option of placing image, and it's only for original image size (my site 450px max w) - sometimes only a large image will do, it'd be nice to be able to post large images then include a thumbnail with link to full size image (from submit page)

I'm looking for documentation on creating product types for the ecommerce suite. In particular I'm looking for productapi operations.

I need a feedback/rating system for the registered members/users of my site (www.comactents.org), basically so members can take into account the ratings of other members when deciding whether to work with them in organising an event. I'd like for users to be able to click on a username and get a button or tab that allows them to view the ratings and comments other users have left for that user (a bit like amazons user profiles where you get a star rating and buyers leave feedback, only in this case it would be collaborators instead of buyers).

I don't know whether I need to write a new module or if I'd be better off stringing together a number of already available ones. I've written PhP in the past but it's been a while :) I've installed the volunteers module in my 4.6.1 drupal site, but that only seems to allow volunteer coordinators, of which there can only be one (I think) to view feedback. I need less centralized viewing and commenting control for user ratings... The guestbook module sounds like it could be useful for this purpose but I don't want users to be able to delete feedback without moderator aproval... One idea I had was to have a page node automatically ascociated with each user (not sure how to do that yet) and use the comments for that page as feedback and maybe one of the voting modules to have a vote for the page which represents the user...

any tips or other suggestions very, very welcome!

2checkout addon for e-commerce module
is someone work on this feature?
maybe i can accelerate this process with some donations?

Does anybody know how to display the information from the summary module? I can configure it but how do i show it?

I want to develop a block for site that allows me to post my my Digg.com data onto it. An example of this would be http://www.kevinrose.com. Digg has a tool that creates html that get's your digg data from their servers. I have a page with this data on my site (http://www.jonhoweonline.com/old/testfeed/feed.html). From what I've read on creating modules, this shouldn't be that hard.